Art on a Postcard Winter Auction, Lots 401-520

About 

Eliza Southwood is an award-winning printmaker and illustrator originally from London but currently based in Northern Spain. She practiced as an architect before deciding to take up a career as an artist over a decade ago. 
From the age of ten she spent her childhood in the remote region of Asturias in Spain, where she grew up drawing and painting scenes of local life in the mountains. She attended local Spanish schools, later travelling to the UK for A Levels. A year in Tuscany followed, where she ended up working at an Arab race-horse establishment.  
She graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a degree in Architecture, finishing her postgraduate architectural studies in London. Later she obtained a MSc in Environmental Engineering and taught occasionally at London Metropolitan University and UCL architecture departments. She spent several years working as a designer for various architectural practices such as Eric Parry Architects and Arup Associates.  
She decided to give up architectural practice in her thirties in order to work full time on her own art projects. Her speciality is silk screen printing, but she also works in mixed media, watercolour and acrylic. Eliza is known particularly for her cycling themed artwork, but also produces work on a wide range of subjects such as cityscapes, dogs, sports and people. She exhibits regularly across the UK and abroad. 
 

Education 

MSc Architecture, Energy and Sustainability 
RIBA Part III 
RIBA Part II 
BArch (Glasgow) 
A Levels in Art, English Lit, French and Spanish 
Baccalaureate in Spain 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 
 
Solo shows 
Non Voyage - Architect's House Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2020 
The Cycling Art of Eliza Southwood – Hornseys Art Gallery, Ripon, 2019 
Eliza Southwood – Assembly House, Norwich, 2017  
Brutal – Espacio Gallery, London 2017 
Spring Classics - Rapha Gallery, Manchester, 2016 

Awards 
Gold Prize - AOI Poster Prize for Illustration 2019 
Cadisch Gold Prize for Printmaking 2018 
Bronze Prize - AOI Poster Prize for Illustration 2018 
 

Gallery Representation 

Wychwood Gallery  
Rostra Gallery 
Art Pistol Glasgow 
The Old School Gallery 
Hornseys Art Gallery 
Gas Gallery 
Byard Art 
The New Ashgate Gallery 
 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork   

I'm known for my cycling themed work. I found someone locally here in Northern Spain who makes beautiful hand made paper, so I decided to wash it with English tea to create some atmosphere and texture and then paint these very simple, minimal cyclists each in their own moment. 

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